Native Environments

Native Environments allow you to immediately get started building and deploying your application using common language runtimes.

Render’s native environments include:

Automated builds and deploys for supported languages in both public and private Git repositories.
Infrastructure as Code with render.yaml.
Regular updates to native environments to improve functionality, security, and performance.

All native environments come with standard Render features like:

Private networking, load balancing, and service discovery.
Persistent block storage.
Automatic Brotli and gzip compression for faster responses.
Easy HTTP health checks and zero downtime deploys.
Automatic Pull Request Previews.
Native HTTP/2 support.
DDoS protection.
Automatic HTTP → HTTPS redirects.
Unlimited custom domains.
Free and unlimited teams and collaborators.

Supported Languages and Default Versions

Language	Default Version
`Elixir`	1.9.4
`Go`	1.17
`Node`	14.17.0
`Python`	3.7.10
`Ruby`	2.6.8
`Rust`	latest

To specify a non-default version refer to the guides below:

We recommend using a Docker environment for languages where we currently do not have native environment support, such as PHP or Java, or if there are utilities, tools, or libraries that are missing from our native environments.

Included Tools and Utilities

The following tools and utilities are available for builds and deploys

Builds

curl
ffmpeg
g++
gcc
git
gnupg2
jq
libvips-dev
libvips-tools
make
nano
node
npm
pandoc
pigz
pnpm
postgresql-client
princexml
python3-dev
python3-pip
python3-setuptools
rsync
sqlite3
swig
typescript
unzip
vim
webpack
wget
yarn
zip

Deploys

curl
ffmpeg
g++
gcc
ghostscript
git
gnupg2
imagemagick
jq
libvips-dev
libvips-tools
make
nano
node
npm
pandoc
pigz
pnpm
postgresql-client
postgresql-client-12
postgresql-client-13
postgresql-client-14
princexml
python3-dev
python3-pip
python3-setuptools
rsync
sqlite3
swig
typescript
unzip
vim
webpack
wget
yarn
zip